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Shelby Knowles — THE BATTALION 25X25 CONTINUED Student Engineers’ Coun cil showed that while most students agreed with CFY in theory, they were frustrated by the inability or difficulty to get into engineering class es. The Battalion spoke with more than a dozen fresh men engineering students, and the responses largely matched the SEC survey, which is conducted every semester on current engi neering topics. Christina Sheldon, gen eral engineering freshman, said CFY is a good plan, but it was poorly implemented. “Their idea behind it was real good, but they imple mented it very badly because their plan was to come in as general engineering and get more info about different engineering majors and then decide, but they didn’t give us any info about different engineering majors,” Shel don said. Sheldon said she felt Engi neering 111 and 112 — the classes designed to provide a scope of options to freshman students —fell short because they are filled with “busy work” that consumes much more time than necessary. Despite these drawbacks, Sheldon said the engineering college has been receptive to student feedback. Valerie Taylor, senior as sociate dean for academic af fairs with the Dwight Look College of Engineering, said the change of freshmen to general engineering allows students to learn more about each major before commit ting to any particular path of study. “The change to having freshmen enter as general engineering students* allows the students to have time to become familiar with the majors within the Dwight Look College of Engineer ing, so that they can make an informed decisions when applying for entry into a ma jor,” Taylor said. Taylor said departments have a limit on seats within sophomore courses but the college anticipates sufficient room for freshmen students as they move into their de gree plans. ’ “Departments have a limit on the number of seats available in the sophomore- level courses,” Taylor said. “There is, however, suf ficient capacity across all of the departments for the incoming freshman as well as some transfer students and change-of-curriculum students. It is recognized, however, that some majors within the Look College are in greater demand than other majors.” Taylor said all engineer ing classes will be capped at 100 students, and the college will continue to develop in frastructure and hire profes sors to accommodate new students. The Spring 2015 applica tion term for specific engi neering departments opened Feb. 9 and closes March 3. JAMES CONTINUED Through stories like this, James said she wants to edu cate people on the impor tance of being aware of and involved with issues going on in the scientific com munity. She said that while something may appear com pletely unrelated to people’s everyday lives, it can actually reveal amazing discoveries and insight. “If the public doesn’t un derstand what scientists are doing and scientists don’t tell them what they’re do ing, then it is very easy for the public to say what you’re doing isn’t worthwhile,” James said. In addition to encourag ing awareness of the natural sciences, James said she was able to speak with many A&M professors during her time on campus, allowing her to educate herself about new ideas. “There’s just so much going on here,” James said. “Academically you’ve got undergraduates, graduates, researchers, books. The most recent person I talked to was talking about this ob servatory in Antarctica. 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